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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • The contribution is original and unpublished, and is not being evaluated for publication by another journal.

  • The article is accompanied by an abstract, keywords and title (in Portuguese and English) and respects the minimum size of 40,000 characters (with spaces) and maximum of 60,000. In the case of a review, the author declares that the text respects the minimum of 9,000 characters (with spaces) and a maximum of 14,000 characters (with spaces).

  • The submission has no more than 3 (three) authors and meets the academic qualification requirements. The parts written by each of the co-authors, from the research to the final writing of the text, must be duly identified in a Supplementary Co-Authorship Document included in the system.

  • None of the autor(s) published in Mediations in the last 18 months. 

  • The text complies with the style and bibliographic requirements described in the Author Guidelines in the section "About" the Journal. URLs for the references are provided where necessary.

  • The text is formatted in 1.5 line spacing and uses 12 point Times New Roman. Figures and tables are inserted in the body of the text, not at the end of the document as appendices. Files are submitted in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice or RTF format (not to exceed 2MB).

  • Identification of the authorship of the work was removed from the file and from the ‘Properties’ option in Word. I know that the rule is mandatory for both types of submission adopted by Mediações, double-blind evaluation andpeer-informed evaluation.

  • All author(s) that are submitting the manuscript are duly registered in the system at the time of submission and have included their ORCID in the identification data as well as other obligatory information (full name, full institutional affiliation, city, State, country, mini-curriculum, Lattes link, funding source(s), e-mail(s), possible conflicts of interest.

  • The authors declare that the article observes the rules of good academic practice, in particular those of plagiarism and self-plagiarism, as described in the instructions contained in the Plagiarism section of the journal.

  • The author(s) guarantee that their research has adhered to the ethical principles established in the documents that regulate ethical conduct in research involving human beings and/or animals for their area of knowledge, as indicated in the section Ethical Principles, complying with all requirements set by the specific legislation in force in the country where the research was conducted; and that have attached, if applicable, a copy of the approval document from a research ethics committee as a supplementary document (titled 'Approval CEP') in the submission process.

  • If the author(s) wish to proceed with the informed evaluation modality, they confirm that they have completed and attached the specific evaluation form provided by SciELO to their submission.

  • The authors who indicated that they have deposited their manuscripts in preprint servers declare that they have informed Mediações (in the 'Comments to the Editor' box) at the time of submission, providing the link to the virtual location of the article as well as its DOI. They are aware that manuscripts previously deposited in preprint servers will always be subject to open review regarding the identification of the author(s).

Author Guidelines

Last update of editorial policies and guidelines for authors: 2024/12/20

Mediações publishes unpublished texts (free articles for continuous publication or for dossiers) in Portuguese, Spanish and English. It also has a review section, which is only published on our website. Under no circumstances should submissions be evaluated for publication by another journal (but they may have been deposited, as specified in our Open Science tab, in preprint repositories).

The articles, accompanied by a title, abstract and keywords (in Portuguese and English), should have a minimum size of 40,000 characters (with spaces) and a maximum of 60,000 characters (with spaces). The abstract, twelve lines maximum, should clearly define the subject under discussion. The keywords should clearly identify the subject under study, the theme or area of concentration of the article, and number between 3 and 5.

Authors need to submit keywords according to the guidelines for authors and Mediações also recommends that they be standardised according to the Brazilian Thesaurus of Information Science (IBICT), which recommends that the words selected represent the content of the document submitted to the journal. It also encourages the use of the CRediT taxonomy to represent information on the individual contribution of authors.

The following rules should also be observed:

a) The minimum qualification of the main author required for submission to the journal Mediações is a master’s degree.

b) Only articles with at most 3 (three) authors will be accepted. All people involved in the production of the text must be registered as authors from the start of the submission process. In the case of submissions with more than one author, the parts written by each author, from initial research to the final writing up of the text, should be duly identified in a separate file, to be added as a Supplementary Document of Co-Authorship at the time of submission. Additionally, encourages the use of the CRediT taxonomy to represent information about the individual authors' contributions.

c) Authors who have published in Mediações must wait for an interval of two years before publication of a new article and 18 months after the previous publication date to begin a new submission process.

d) The text must be written in formal Portuguese and in compliance with the standards of ABNT NBR 6023. If the text is observed not to have been undergone an adequate grammatical and orthographical review to ensure it conforms to scholarly scientific language, the manuscript may be rejected.

e) Identification of the authorship of the work must be removed from the file and from the ‘Properties’ option in Word. The rule is mandatory for both types of submission adopted by Mediações, double-blind evaluation and open evaluation.

f) Authors and co-authors must include their ORCID numbers in the identification data, as well as obligatory information (full name, full institutional affiliation, city, State, country, mini-curriculum, Lattes link, funding source(s), e-mail(s), possible Interest Conflicts).

g) Authors are entirely responsible for observing the rules of academic good practice, in particular those concerning plagiarism and self-plagiarism, described in the instructions contained in the journal’s Plagiarism The maximum amount of self-citation accepted by Mediações is 5%.

h) Authors must ensure that their investigation follows the ethical and legal principles established by the documents that regulate ethical conduct in research involving human beings and/or animals in their area of knowledge, as indicated in journal’s Ethical Principles section, complying with all the requirements determined by the specific legislation in force in the country in which the research was conducted; and that have attached, if applicable, a copy of the approval document from a research ethics committee as a supplementary document (titled 'Approval CEP') in the submission process.

i) Author(s) who wish to proceed with the informed evaluation modality confirm that they have completed and attached the specific evaluation form provided by SciELO to their submission.

j) It is mandatory for authors whose manuscripts are available in preprint servers to inform Mediações, at the time of submission, of the virtual location link of the article as well as its DOI, which should be inserted in the 'Comments for the Editor' box. Are aware that manuscripts previously deposited in preprint servers will always be subject to open review regarding the identification of the author(s).

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Reviews of books not translated into Portuguese published over the last 5 years, published only on the Mediações website, should present both the central ideas of the author(s) and the critical considerations of the reviewer concerning the content of the book. They should contain a minimum of 9.000 characters (with spaces) and a maximum of 14,000 characters (with spaces).

Click here to make a new submission to the section: Reviews

For more information regarding Section Policies, visit Sections.

Texts should be presented in Microsoft Word format (or that of a compatible word processor) in 1.5 line spacing and 12 point Times New Roman. Figures and tables should be inserted in the body of the text, not at the end of the document. Footnotes should be short and will only be published if they are essential to understanding the ideas and key concepts. Citations in foreign languages should be translated into the language adopted in the article.

Texts should follow the ABNT reference system. Citations over the course of the text should follow the model Author (date, p.). For example:

According to Fernandes (2001, p. 63), “[text].”

A direct or textual citation containing 40 words or more should be presented in a separate paragraph without quotation marks with a 4 cm left indent, without additional indentation of the first line, and no right indent. In these cases, single line spacing should be used with a 10 point font.

When the citation is indirect, referring to concepts or ideas of the author under discussion, but paraphrased with the words of the article’s author, the name of the author of the reference text must appear between parentheses. For example:

Cultural dissonance (…) (MÉSZÁROS, 2002, p. 126).

When citing an author cited by another author, the apud (cited by) form should be used. For example:

For Sartre (1963 apud MÉSZÁROS, 2002).

When the text includes the citation of testimonies or interviews, these should be in italics. Citations containing 40 or more words should be presented in a separate paragraph without quotation marks with a 4 cm left indent, without additional indentation of the first line, and no right indent. In these cases, single line spacing should be used with a 10 point font.

References should appear at the end of the article under the title ‘Bibliography,’ containing the works cited over the course of the text, following the norms in the examples below:

Books:

SKINNER, Quentin. As fundações do pensamento político moderno. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1996.

Book chapters:

FRASER, Nancy. Da redistribuição ao reconhecimento? Dilemas da justiça na era pós-socialista. In: SOUZA, J. (Org.). Democracia hoje: novos desafios para a teoria democrática contemporânea. Brasília: Ed. da UNB, 2001.

Articles:


ALEXANDER, Jeffrey C. Ação Coletiva, Cultura e Sociedade Civil: secularização, atualização, inversão, revisão e deslocamento do modelo clássico dos movimentos sociais. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais, vol. 3, nº 37, São Paulo, jun/1998, p.5-31.

Research results:

CHAGURI, Mariana. Do Recife dos anos 20 ao Rio de Janeiro dos anos 30: José Lins do Rego, regionalismo e tradicionalismo. Dissertação de Mestrado, Sociologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 2007.

Texts available on the internet:

CALDAS, Juarez. O fim da economia: o começo de tudo. Disponível em: <http://www.caldasecon.com.br>. Acesso em: 23 abr. 2010

References to translators and to book editions are optional.

For cases not exemplified in our guidelines, please see: https://sites.uel.br/bibliotecas/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ApostilaABNT2023.pdf

Aiming to ensure the quality, standardization, and accessibility of visual representations and other published digital resources, Mediations establishes specific guidelines for the presentation and submission of digital assets in articles. For our rules regarding graphs, tables, images, diagrams, etc., please visit our Digital Assets Guidelines section.

Contributions should be submitted exclusively via the journal website.

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Dossier

Each issue of the periodical Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais includes a thematic dossier. Any researcher, whether a member of the UEL Department of Social Sciences or from outside, may submit a dossier proposal to the journal in line with the Call for Dossier Proposal Guidelines, which are widely publicized on the journal website and other channels. The Editorial Board decides in an on-site meeting on the proposal’s suitability (and consequently acceptance). Mediações prefers to organize thematic dossiers that help promote to interdisciplinarity within the Social Sciences and, for this reason, does not encourage proposals that take the work of a single author as their theme.

Once the dossier proposal has been accepted, one of two paths may be followed: 1 – when the dossier is being organized by academics not belonging to the Editorial Board, one of the editors assumes responsibility for accompanying the editorial decisions of the dossier organizers; 2 – when the dossier is being organized by a member of the Editorial Board, responsibility for accompanying the editorial decisions of the organizers is assigned to this same member.

A public call for articles for the dossier will be made, with a deadline set for submission (in contrast to other contributions which may be received in continuous flow). In the case of dossiers, there is also an article screening phase during which the organizers must ensure that articles adhere to the dossier theme. It is worth noting that the article selection process for the dossier is even more competitive since there is a maximum limit to the number of contributions that can be published (generally the dossiers contain 6 articles, including the presentation when it has  scientific article character).

After screening of the manuscripts, as occurs with open articles, the texts are sent to the reviewers who can give three possible responses in relation to publication, the same as for open articles: the article may be accepted without need for alterations, accepted on condition that the requested corrections are made, or rejected (see Evaluation Form). Further details on the processing of submitted articles can be found in our Privacy Statement.

The dossier organizers have the same tasks as the editors of the open articles section, meaning that they will tell the managing editors, on completion of the process, which articles will be included in the dossier. Additionally, the dossier organizers’ responsibilities extend to: elaborating the dossier’s presentation text; defining the sequence of articles in the dossier’s final composition; communicating to authors whose articles have not been selected to compose the dossier the filing of their submissions.

Make a new submission to the Dossier section.

Articles

The articles, accompanied by a title, abstract and keywords (in Portuguese and English), should have a minimum size of 40,000 characters (with spaces) and a maximum of 60,000. The abstract, twelve lines maximum, should clearly define the subject under discussion. The keywords should clearly identify the subject under study, the theme or area of concentration of the article, and number between 3 and 5.

The following rules should also be observed:

a) The minimum qualification of the main author required for submission to the journal Mediações is a master’s degree.

b) Only articles with at most 3 (three) authors will be accepted. All people involved in the production of the text must be registered as authors from the start of the submission process. In the case of submissions with more than one author, the parts written by each author, from initial research to the final writing up of the text, should be duly identified in a separate file, to be added as a Supplementary Document of Co-Authorship at the time of submission. Additionally, encourages the use of the CRediT taxonomy to represent information about the individual authors' contributions.

c) Authors who have published in Mediações must wait for an interval of two years before publication of a new article and 18 months after the previous publication date to begin a new submission process.

d) The text must be written in formal Portuguese and in compliance with the standards of ABNT NBR 6023. If the text is observed not to have been undergone an adequate grammatical and orthographical review to ensure it conforms to scholarly scientific language, the manuscript may be rejected.

e) Identification of the authorship of the work must be removed from the file and from the ‘Properties’ option in Word. The rule is mandatory for both types of submission adopted by Mediações, double-blind evaluation and open evaluation.

f) Authors and co-authors must include their ORCID numbers in the identification data, as well as obligatory information (full name, full institutional affiliation, city, State, country, mini-curriculum, Lattes link, funding source(s), possible Interest Conflicts).

g) Authors are entirely responsible for observing the rules of academic good practice, in particular those concerning plagiarism and self-plagiarism, described in the instructions contained in the journal’s Plagiarism section. The maximum amount of self-citation accepted by Mediações is 10%.

h) Authors must ensure that their investigation follows the ethical and legal principles established by the documents that regulate ethical conduct in research involving human beings and/or animals in their area of knowledge, as indicated in journal’s Ethical Principles section, complying with all the requirements determined by the specific legislation in force in the country in which the research was conducted.

i) The authors indicated that they wish to proceed with the informed evaluation modality, having filled out and attached the specific evaluation form provided to their submission by SciELO. They agree that, if this operation has not been carried out, the evaluation modality will be the double-blind.

j) It is mandatory for authors whose manuscripts are available in preprint servers to inform Mediações, at the time of submission, of the virtual location link of the article as well as its DOI, which should be inserted in the 'Comments for the Editor' box.

Once the process of submission by the author(s) is completed, the next stage is screening of the article. The section editor(s) make an initial evaluation of the material, focusing particularly on the article’s adherence to the journal’s editorial line. After screening of the manuscripts, the texts are sent to the reviewers who can give three possible responses in relation to publication of the texts: the article may be accepted without need for alterations, accepted on condition that the requested corrections are made, or rejected (see Evaluation Form). 

Make a new submission to the Articles section.

Reviews

Mediações accepts Reviews of books not translated into Portuguese published abroad over the last five years – reviews of collectanea will not be accepted. The texts should present both the central ideas of the author(s) and the critical considerations of the reviewer concerning the content of the book or collection. The quality of the reviewed work, as well as the critical analysis made by the review author, are equally important and will be evaluated by the Editorial Board. As occurs with other leading national and international periodicals, the contributions in the form of reviews, translations and interviews follow to blind review, generally evaluated by a section editor.

Make a new submission to the Reviews section.

Edition Data

Volume data. Section restricted to the Editor-in-Chief.

Copyright Notice

Copyright on articles published in Mediações belongs to the author(s) without restrictions: in the case of partial or entire republication of the original publication, we ask author(s) to indicate the original publication in the periodical.

Mediações uses the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which allows Open Access, enabling any user to read, download, copy and disseminate its content so long as adequately referenced. 

The opinions expressed by the author(s) are their sole responsibility.

Privacy Statement

Mediações is committed to respecting author privacy: names, addresses and other submitted data will be used solely for the procedures indicated by the journal and not made available for other purposes or by third parties.

The manuscript submitted to Mediações is also protected from any form of undue exploitation: both section editors and peer reviewers are instructed not to cite or use the information in their own research or circulate the text prior to its publication.

Mediações also vetoes the sharing of the submitted text to third parties not involved in the editorial process in order to ensure the manuscript’s confidentiality.